5 little frogs at different layer heights.

5 little frogs at different layer heights. Top left to bottom is 0.34, 0.27, 0.1, 0.06 and 0.034. The last one came out a bit bad in places but the smoothness of the back is truly amazing.

Hmm need to take a better picture. That one sucks :confused:

Nice., What’s your preferred layer height then. smoothness vs accuracy…
And what printer are you using?

Why those exact heights? You should make your heights multiples of a single step on the z axis to avoid odd effects.

This is made on an Ultimaker in PLA. The 0.34 was just an experiment and “beautiful” items I would go for 0.06 and for practical items 0.1.

I was just curious why you went for 0.034 as the minimum. Looking at the ultimaker wiki, your z steps per mm is 300*8/3. That means your minimum step is 0.001875mm. 0.06 is a multiple of this, so that shouldn’t be an issue. However, 0.034 is not a multiple, so you may be getting some rounding errors. Try 0.03 instead. That’s 16 steps on the z motor per layer height.

Thank Ketyl, didn’t think of that. The height came from another test with an Replicator2. Will give it a try in a moment!!!

It’ll be interesting to hear if that actually makes a visible difference if you print it. The rounding error is small, but at very small layer heights it might become significant. I figure it’s about 2-3% in your print. Depends if there are any other inaccuracies that are greater.

It worked much better. Printing nicely at 0.03 now.

@Ketil_Froyn , here is the frog at 0.03. Some artifacts but much better than at 0.034.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104199731463622588564/posts/PgHQuENi2fh

Trying 0.015 now :slight_smile:

I believe you need to adjust your extrusion multiplyer a little. Those tiny bumps may dissapear when you extrude a little less plastic.

@Mano_Biletsky_Open_M , what is the best way to do that? Decrease filament width or just lower flow rate? Also I am printing quite warm, 220-225 degrees. Perhaps I should lower the temp?